WASHINGTON - Initially, Bobby Jindal was supposed to be the headliner at Thursday's night's fundraiser for presumptive GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney. But since the Virginia fundraiser was announced, Romney chose Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wisc., as his vice presidential running mate, not Jindal or other hopefuls.

So it came that Ryan joined Jindal at the Richmond Marriott Hotel,and the pair helped raise $500,000, according to the Republican National Committee.

During his remarks, Jindal said that while it's clear Romney made a "great choice," and a "bold choice" in selecting Ryan, Obama had made "an even more bold move by keeping Joe Biden" on his ticket, according to a "pool report" from reporters covering the event.

That was an apparent reference to Biden's controversial statement earlier this week that Romney would "put you all back in chains" by unshackling Wall Street. His audience included many African-Americans.

The Romney campaign said the comment was outrageous and part of a desperate attempt by the Barack Obama campaign to give the president an undeserved second-term.

Biden elaborated on his remarks after the criticism saying that "if you want to know what's outrageous, it's their policies."

"The last time these guys unshackled the economy, to use their term, they put the middle class in shackles," Biden said. "That's how we get where we are. Nine million jobs lost, wage stagnation, 16 trillion dollars in wealth you all lost..."

In his remarks at the Richmond Marriott, Jindal repeated previous comments that Obama "has been the most liberal" and "most incompetent president since Jimmy Carter was in the White House - no disrespect to Jimmy Carter."